State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Thomas

OPINION

SANDERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a chancery decree in a declaratory judgment suit holding there was no coverage under an automobile liability policy.

In June, 1981, the Plaintiff-Appellee, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, issued a standard automobile liability policy to the Defendants, Virgil A. Fisher and Betty S. Fisher, residents of Salem, Virginia. As pertinent here, the policy provides coverage to a non-owned automobile for “any relative” of the named insured. It defines a relative as “any relative of the named insured who is a resident of the same household.”…